Prosecutors to inspect quality of food in kindergartens and schoolsRussia’s Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov has ordered prosecutors to inspect how contracts made with respect to organization of catering in schools and kindergartens are executed.11:21 25.01.2021
VKontakte urged to suppress involvement of minors into wrongdoingRussia’s communications agency Roskomnadzor has sent a request to the management of VKontakte social network demanding to immediately suppress involvement of minors into unauthorized rallies.11:26 21.01.2021
Russia’s Children Ombudsman reports over 200 petitions received during New Year holidaysMore than 200 petitions, some of them from several persons, have been submitted to the Office of Russia’s Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova during the New Year holidays.17:25 13.01.2021
Investigators seek detention of unchurched ex-schema monk SergiusThe Moscow Basmanny District Court is to examine a petition of investigative authorities seeking to detain excommunicated former schema monk Sergius (Nikolay Romanov), the court’s press service informs RAPSI on Tuesday.17:03 29.12.2020
Number of minors losing lives on playgrounds down by 71% - Russia’s Children OmbudsmanThe number of minors who died or got injured in tragic accidents on play- and sportsgrounds declined by 71.4% and 48% respectively this year, Russia’s Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova said at a meeting of the Council of Fathers, a body at her office, on Friday.17:41 25.12.2020
Appeals instance overturns $3,000 fine imposed on Moscow children’s hospiceThe Moscow City Court on Monday overturned a 200,000-ruble ($3,000) fine imposed on the Lighthouse Charity Foundation (children’s hospice Dom s Mayakom) for errors in the organization’s drug register and quashed the administrative proceedings.13:58 14.12.2020
Arrest of wanted defendant in surrogacy kids trade case in absentia upheldThe Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant in absentia for Konstantin Svitnev, a defendant in a case over trafficking of surrogate mothers’ children.18:06 09.12.2020
Negligent father gets 15 months in jail for giving up sons at Moscow airportThe Central District Court in Russia’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur sentenced a local man who had given his two kids up at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport to 15 years in penal colony.11:49 30.11.2020
Russian minors from Syria taken into relatives’ care – Child Rights CommissionerChildren, who had been earlier sent away from Syria to Russia, were taken into their relatives’ care, according to Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova.11:11 26.11.2020
Russia’s Children Ombudsman urges mandatory pretrial mediation in family disputesIntroduction of the procedure of mandatory pretrial mediation in civil cases relating to family law and development of territorial conciliation services are to facilitate readiness of citizens to negotiate and save families from disintegration, Russia’s Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes.17:54 23.11.2020
Children Ombudsman assists to return home 3 Russian minors from SerbiaThree Russian children could be brought back to their homeland from Serbia with assistance of Russia’s Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova.14:00 23.11.2020
Civic Chamber’s member urges to introduce criminal punishment for child cyberbullyingMember of the Civic Chamber Commission on Development of Information Community, Mass Media, and Mass Communications Yekaterina Mizulina states it is necessary to capture punishment for public cyberbullying against minors in law.14:50 19.11.2020
Case over 2019 Far Eastern children camp fire set for DecemberA court in the Khabarovsk Krai has scheduled a criminal case over the 2019 deadly fire in the children camp Holdomi for December 3.11:55 18.11.2020
Russian Government allocates over $800 million for child benefitsRussian regions will receive 61.8 billion rubles (over $800 million) for monthly payments to children aged from 3 to 7 years. A corresponding order was signed Tuesday by the Government’s Chairman Mikhail Mishustin.10:55 17.11.2020
Russia’s Children Ombudsman urges delay as to bill banning extrajudicial removal of minorsIt is necessary to delay the discussion of a bill envisaging a ban on removal of children from their families under out-of-court procedures, Russia’s Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes, citing criticism on the part of both lawmakers and the society.17:48 16.11.2020
Another 31 Russian children to return from Syria – minor’s ombudsmanAn airplane of the Defense Ministry of Russia with 31 children took off from Syria to the Russian Federation on Friday, the press service of children’s ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova told RAPSI.16:32 13.11.2020
Russian minors' ombudsman calls for creation of child rights monitoring board in SyriaRussia’s Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova during a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister of Syria Faisal Mekdad on Friday proposed to create am international commission for monitoring of clearance of rights of minors held in Syrian camps.13:38 13.11.2020
Moscow Mayor extends distance learning for senior schoolchildrenMoscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on Wednesaday signed an order extending distance learning for pupils in grades 6-11 amid the coronavirus spread until November 8.17:30 28.10.2020
Defendants in 2019 Far Eastern children camp fire case to go on trialA criminal case over the 2019 deadly fire in the children camp Holdomi has reached a court in the Khabarovsk Region, Russia’s Far East.12:52 26.10.2020
Russian minors' ombudsman reports rise in number of chilrdren's deaths on summer holidaysThe number of children died during unorganized rest and recreation this summer increased by 1.7 times as compared to the same period in 2019, Russia’s Minors Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova said at the All-Russia telephone conference on the summer health promotion campaign results.13:30 21.10.2020